MLT's art exhibit "Phase 2" features 37 children's paintings

In a celebration of color and exuberant creativity, the front of Marblehead Little Theatre is now bedecked with 37 canvases painted by children in Phase 2 of MLT’s outdoor summer art exhibit.

The vivacious canvases were painted in response to an invitation to local children issued by MLT and artist Jeremy Barnett to make their own artwork and submit these pieces in one week. The 37 canvases have been sewn together in a veritable COVID quilt and displayed on the facade of the theatre located at 12 School Street where they will be on display for the month of August.

"Marblehead has always been a community that is supportive and enthusiastic about the arts.” Barnett said. "I came up with the idea of publicly displaying paintings because I couldn’t bear the idea of a summer in Marblehead without a focus on the arts. But more than that, it felt important to have an expression of community art. When the children’s paintings came in, that’s exactly what we got. We saw bursts of color, portraits of families, depictions of summer, scenes of Marblehead, and even an expression of patriotism. Some are pictorial, some are abstract. All of them are bright. And all of them are beautiful.”

Barnett thanks the young participants for their artistic generosity and MLT for its ongoing support of the arts at all levels.

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